"improvisation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪmpɹəvaɪˈzeɪʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪmˌpɹɑvəˈzeɪʃən/ [General-American], /ˌɪm-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-improvisation.wav [Southern-England] Forms: improvisations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From French improvisation. Morphologically improvise + -ation Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|improvisation}} French improvisation, {{suffix|en|improvise|ation|nocat=1}} improvise + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} improvisation (countable and uncountable, plural improvisations)
  1. The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously): σχεδιασμός (skhediasmós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), импровизация (improvizacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), improvisatie [feminine] (Dutch), improvizado (Esperanto), improvisointi (Finnish), improvisaatio (Finnish), improvisation [feminine] (French), Improvisation [feminine] (German), seiftiú [masculine] (Irish), improvvisazione (Italian), titonga ohiatanga (Maori), improvisasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), improvisasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), improvisação [feminine] (Portuguese), improvizare [feminine] (Romanian), импровиза́ция (improvizácija) [feminine] (Russian), improvisación [feminine] (Spanish), improvisation [common-gender] (Swedish), імпровіза́ція (improvizácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-improvisation-en-noun-r6DrhS1d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 3 7 36 Disambiguation of 'act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously': 80 5 6 9
  2. That which is improvised; an impromptu. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (that which is improvised; an impromptu): импровизация (improvizacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), improvisació (Catalan), improvizace [feminine] (Czech), improvisatie [feminine] (Dutch), improvisoitu (Finnish), improvisation (French), Improvisation [feminine] (German), improvizáció (Hungarian), improvvisazione (Italian), titonga ohiatanga (Maori), improvisasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), improvisasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), improviso (Portuguese), импровиза́ция (improvizácija) [feminine] (Russian), improvisación (Spanish), improvisation [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-improvisation-en-noun-G-e0AwJJ Disambiguation of 'that which is improvised; an impromptu': 4 93 1 2
  3. Musical technique, characteristic of blues music. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (musical technique, characteristic of blues music): 即興 (Chinese Mandarin), 即兴 (jíxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), improvizace [feminine] (Czech), improvisatie [feminine] (Dutch), improvisointi (Finnish), Improvisation [feminine] (German), improvvisazione (Italian), improvisasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), improvisasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), импровиза́ция (improvizácija) [feminine] (Russian), improvisation [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-improvisation-en-noun-Z5lpKTGN Disambiguation of 'musical technique, characteristic of blues music': 4 1 94 1
  4. The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvisation-en-noun-wf9--CYM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: improvisational

Noun [French]

IPA: /ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vi.za.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-improvisation.wav Forms: improvisations [plural]
Etymology: From improviser + -ation. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|improviser|-ation}} improviser + -ation Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} improvisation f (plural improvisations)
  1. improvisation (all meanings) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-improvisation-fr-noun-l-FkCykG Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -ation

Noun [Swedish]

Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} improvisation c, {{sv-noun|c}} improvisation c Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-c-er}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], improvisation [indefinite, nominative, singular], improvisationen [definite, nominative, singular], improvisationer [indefinite, nominative, plural], improvisationerna [definite, nominative, plural], improvisations [genitive, indefinite, singular], improvisationens [definite, genitive, singular], improvisationers [genitive, indefinite, plural], improvisationernas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. improvisation (all meanings) Tags: common-gender Related terms: improvisera (english: improvise)
    Sense id: en-improvisation-sv-noun-l-FkCykG Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header

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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously",
      "word": "improvisointi"
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      "word": "improvisaatio"
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "improvisation"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Improvisation"
    },
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      "code": "grc",
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      "sense": "act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "σχεδιασμός"
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seiftiú"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously",
      "word": "improvvisazione"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "improvisasjon"
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "improvisasjon"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "improvisação"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "improvizare"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "импровиза́ция"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "improvisación"
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        "feminine"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
      "word": "improvizáció"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
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      "sense": "that which is improvised; an impromptu",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "импровиза́ция"
    },
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      "word": "improvisación"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
      "word": "即興"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jíxìng",
      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
      "word": "即兴"
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      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
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        "feminine"
      ],
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      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
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    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Improvisation"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
      "word": "improvvisazione"
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      "word": "improvisasjon"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "improvizácija",
      "sense": "musical technique, characteristic of blues music",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "импровиза́ция"
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        "definite",
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        "genitive",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "improvisationernas",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.